Mercedes Rodriguez

Discipline: Poetry

Year at Millay: 2026

A poet and educator from Los Angeles, CA. Chosen by Brandon Som as the winner of the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, their work appears in New England Review, The Georgia Review, Washington Square Review, Michigan Quarterly Review: Mixtape, like a field, Bellingham Review, The Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. Their work has received support from Bread Loaf, the Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts, and the Charleston Literary Festival’s Cato Fellowship. They hold an MFA from North Carolina State University.